[CentOS] Problems with 4.3 install - (/boot 75mb)
Bill Schoolcraft
bill at wiliweld.com
Thu Apr 13 18:45:44 UTC 2006
At Thu, 13 Apr 2006 it looks like Kai Schaetzl composed:
> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:33:16 -0400 (EDT):
>
> > Err, investigating whether upstream supports reiser would have been a good
> > first move.
>
> Well, shouldn't the setup program not bark about this? I installed CentOS
> yesterday on a system that had been running reiserfs as well. The partition
> helper (disk druid or what it is) showed it and didn't indicate I should not
> setup on it. Luckily, I wanted to wipe and format with ext3, anyway. F.i. if
> you choose a /boot partition lower than 75 MB (I used 50 MB) setup will sound
> a warning.
>
I believe if you choose ext2 vs ext3, the size of 75mb will be fine.
"ext3" needs some extra space for the journeling factor. For /boot
one needs no journeling anyway, it's not a rw item, virtually a
"read-only" partition.
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